“Stretch yourself out on that, now.”
They helped me to haul myself up on the table, to which they bound me fast, with my arms under the bier.
Where was Johann?
Karl, without any warning, put a sort of muzzle over me. An odor of ether penetrated my lungs.
“Why not chloroform?” I said to myself.
Lerne recommended as follows:
“Breathe deeply and regularly—it is for your own good. Breathe!”
I obeyed.
There is a syringe with a sharp-pointed nozzle in my uncle’s hand.
Hallo! he has pricked my neck with it!